How To Align Craftsman Garage Door Sensors

The lights on both the sending and receiving sensors will glow steadily when the wiring connections and alignment are correct.

How to align craftsman garage door sensors.

If your garage door sensors are outside of this range remove them entirely from the garage door frame and install leveled inside the safe zone. The photo eye of an automatic opening garage door is a safety feature. If your craftsman garage door opener fails to close the door properly you may need to disable the sensor light temporarily until you can replace the sensors. Adjust the garage door opener mechanism.

If the photo eye senses an obstruction it stops the door from closing and. The amber light on the sending sensor will glow regardless of alignment or obstruction. Sometimes the sensor becomes faulty and needs to be replaced. All garage door openers use a sensor light to prevent the door from closing when an object is in its path.

The latest garage door sensors are technologically advanced and even allow you to control the opening and closing through an app on your smartphone. Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm. Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. The installation instructions for a craftsman door opener call for installing the sensors 6 inches above the floor and you can mount them to the floor the wall or the door track with the.

In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly. How to adjust a photo eye on a garage door. Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets.